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Nova Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is large, round, melting and very juicy. The fruit can be used either green or ripe.
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Olympic Custom Benchgraft
A very large, Asian pear. Flesh is sweet, crisp, course, and juicy. Cold hardy and fire blight resistant.
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Orcas Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow pear with a red blush. Flesh is very flavorful. Scab resistant.
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Parker Custom Benchgraft
A large yellow bronze fruit that is fine grained, juicy, and tender. An upright and vigorous grower. Pollinate with any other pear variety.
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Patten Custom Benchgraft
Very large fruit. Should be picked about one week before ripening and then allow to ripen. This is a fair canning pear.
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Pineapple Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow pear with red blush. Flesh is crisp with a pineapple flavor. Fire blight resistant. Requires only 200 chill hours.
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Potomac Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green pear with a subacid flavor. Tree is somewhat resistant to fire blight. Moderate keeper.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Red Bartlett Custom Benchgraft
Large red sport of the Bartlett pear with crisp sweet flesh. Has some disease resistance.
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Red d'Anjou Custom Benchgraft
A large, red pear with some russeting. Flesh is mild and sweet and gets better with some storage. Stores for a long time.
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Red Sensation Custom Benchgraft
A Bartlett type pear with a higher sugar content. The skin is very red which makes it a great dessert pear. Pollinator needed.
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Rescue Custom Benchgraft
Large elongated pear with yellow skin and some orange and red stripping/blush. Buttery flesh with a small core and sweet flavor. Self-fertile. Scab resistant.
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Rotkottis Frau Ostergotland Custom Benchgraft
A red fleshed pear.
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Schweizer Wasserbirne Custom Benchgraft
A large, green pear with russeting. The flesh is yellow and course with a sweet/slightly tart flavor.
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Seckel Custom Benchgraft
Small, sweet "Sugar Pear". Ideal for the home gardener. Vigorous, hardy and blight resistant tree.
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Sheldon Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large size, green pear that may turn yellow as it gets very ripe. Flesh is juicy, melting, and sweet with a spicy flavor. Good keeper.
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Shenandoah Pear Custom Benchgraft
A large green pear with a very rich Bartlett type flavor. Very resistant to fire blight.
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Shinko Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, oval, brownish-green fruit. Firm, crisp, apple-like flesh with rich, sweet distinctive flavor. Good keeper. Annual bearer
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Southworth Custom Benchgraft
A large, good flavored pear with sweet, juicy, and firm flesh
Out of stock$15.00
Pear Custom Benchgraft
Custom Bench Grafting Apple, Pear, Plum trees
Bench grafting is where a piece of scionwood is grafted onto a rootstock to grow a new tree. The scionwood dictates the variety of fruit. The rootstock dictates the size, hardiness, vigor, and disease resistance of the tree. Apple scions must be grafted onto apple rootstock, pear scions onto pear rootstock, and plum scions onto stone rootstock.
There are many different methods of bench grafting, but the whip and tongue is a good one with high success rates. Basically, we whip and tongue graft a piece of scionwood that has 2-3 buds on it (usually 2-3 inches) onto a rootstock of your choice. Before grafting onto the rootstock, it is cut down to 6 inches above the top root which usually ends up with a 12 inch rootstock. The resulting benchgraft is roughly 14-15 inches long.